PMID: 3746398Jul 1, 1986Paper

The binocular organization of simple cells in the cat's visual cortex

Journal of Neurophysiology
I Ohzawa, R D Freeman

Abstract

We have studied the manner by which inputs from the two eyes are combined in simple cells of the cat's visual cortex. The stimuli for this study are drifting sinusoidal gratings, shown dichoptically at optimal spatial frequency and orientation. The relative spatial phase (disparity) between the gratings for left and right eyes is varied over 360 degrees. Most simple cells show phase-specific binocular interaction such that response amplitudes and phases vary depending on the relative spatial phase. At one phase, response is greater than either of the monocular responses and often greater than the sum of the two. At the phase 180 degrees away from the optimal, the cell's responses are strongly inhibited and often completely suppressed. Phase-specific binocular interaction disappears when the gratings presented to one eye are made orthogonal to the optimal orientation. The degree of binocular interaction does not depend critically on the ocular dominance of the cells. Simple cells that are nearly equally dominated by each eye always exhibit strong phase-specific interaction. The majority of cells that are strongly dominated by one eye, and even those that appear monocular, show phase-dependent changes in responses. We examined th...Continue Reading

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